Skip” in Piedmont, West Virginia—turned a childhood encounter with racist medical neglect into a lifelong drive to prove ...

The acclaimed series returns with Professor Gates exploring the mysteries, surprises and revelations hidden in the family trees of popular figures. Kristin Chenoweth and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on ...

James D. Montgomery, the city’s first Black corporation counsel, learns of his ancestral roots from Henry Louis Gates, ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Although Sara Haines is regularly spotted on ABC’s daytime talk show The View, fans can catch her as she joins Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the upcoming episode of Finding ...

"Do you know who that is?" Gates Jr. asked Haines during their private chat, showing her a photo. "He looks like a lot of people in my history book," she replied, then realizing the man was John Adams ...

You may have read recently how minions of the Trump administration removed an exhibit about slavery from the President's House in Philadelphia (where George Washington lived, with slaves) as part of ...

S ince 2012, Finding Your Roots host Henry Louis Gates Jr. has been captivating viewers by peeling back the layers of American identity through the stories of actors, politicians, athletes, and ...

WNBA star Brittney Griner learns about the horrors one of her ancestors endured at a mental asylum in an exclusive clip from Tuesday’s episode of PBS’s hit series, Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis ...

The new PBS series Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History is not the first piece of media to investigate the relationship between the two communities. But what’s unique about the program, ...

In this exclusive ‘Finding Your Roots’ clip, actor Lizzy Caplan learns about her mother’s ancestors. Actor Lizzy Caplan always thought it was unusual she didn’t know of any relatives who were victims ...